democrats so close to the election. why mcdonald s in particular coming out with this story, why does that hurt? here s the story. the wall street journal has gotten hold of a letter written by mcdonald s to the authorities in washington about health care. that letter says and i m quoting, it would be economically prohibitive for our carrier to continue offering coverage. that s to the 30,000 mcdonald s employees who get this low cost, low benefit coverage right now. mcdonald s is saying, economically, not good with the health care reform act in place. mcdonald s this morning turns around and says false story. not true. we re not considering dropping coverage. health and human services turns around this morning and says, the story is wrong. but those two denials leave out the fact that this letter was written and mcdonald s is saying that under health care reform, the way it s written, we can t afford to keep on giving this
that it sent the letter saying we can t afford this kind of coverage under health care reform. bill: what a huge company this is, too, it employs tens of thousands. look, they offer low cost, low benefit coverage to 30,000 employees. another 1.4 million similar employees, in similar jobs in other industries, also get the same kind of coverage. will they, too, be dropped, or have their coverage changed because of health care reform? that s how big it is. bill: thank you stuart, stuart varney, fox business network, see you at # 20:00 an varney & company. bless you martha. martha: thank you very much, bill! all right, we have breaking news to tell you about on the u.s. con america s 453,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits, that number coming out this morning. that s a drop of 15,000 from the week before and it s the third drop that we ve seen over the course of four weeks, and second quarter